They were talking about this on the radio, a couple of British divers have put a line through the caves, now it's back to the Thai Navy Seals to organise the evac. They reckon it's about 90 minutes of diving and swimming to reach the kids though, so it's unclear how they're going to get them out yet. At least they can get food and medical help in there now. Amazing story.
 
Edit: just read that apparently very few, if any, of the kids can swim

I read the cave was a familiar place to the team. They had made trips there before. What puzzles me is (and will be answered when the coach is properly interviewed):
The group walked to the place they're at now, several kilometres from the mouth of the cave.  How did the situation develop to the present state? It's been said they were there to get temporary shelter from the rain, so they did know how the weather was, and being a local, the coach should have known the rains can collect huge amounts of water in the mountain gulches in a short time. Now the route they used that most likely is quite usable on foot, is deadly dangerous for divers. Some really poor decision made on the way, one can assume.
 
Two finnish cave divers died two years ago in a Norwegian cave, and the bodies we're left there, and diving in the cave was forbidden. International rescue team decided it's too dangerous to try to take the corpses up. A group of finnish divers, friends of the dead ones, made a rescue operation secretly and got the bodies home. The documentary of the operation is breathtaking. I can't but admire the nerves (or the lack of nerves) of those people.
 
Let's hope the end of this story is at least as happy as that of the one in Chile.

It looks like there is a lot of international offers of assistance. Just read where NASA is investigating if they can be of help (as they were with the Chilean miners several years ago) and Elon Musk is investigating if any of their tech can be of help (such as the Boring Company and the Telsa batteries)

Rock and a hard place, no pun intended.
 
Nightmare of under water paths, some about only as big as a human with an oxygen tank can get through. Deadly both for the kid and the rescuer if Murphy's Law takes over somewhere along the long way out.
The overhead drill thing is almost not an option given the depth, but not off the table.
Kids said they could hear chickens and dogs barking, giving hope that there may be another passage into the place where they gathered. Would be better than the underwater drag or the wait 4 months option when waters recede. Given the depth from the surface and extreme physical/mental warp during the ordeal, hope that the kids were not just hallucinating the sounds.
 
Prayers are with everyone involved in this.
 
John
 

Sad turn.
One Thai Navy Seal died running out of air trying to deliver oxygen tanks.
Oxygen levels falling in the cave, waters rising and need to act faster even if more dangerous for everyone involved.

Apparently Elon Musk and SpaceX are making a mini kid sub to help get the kids out. They are using a liquid oxygen transfer tube from the Falcon rocket as the base for the sub. Construction expected to take 8 hours and then a 17 hour flight to Thailand.
 
http://nasawatch.com/arch.../elon-musk-will-1.html

They're getting them out, 4 so far!

It's great they are getting them out.